The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-26

TIE Russians are forming cantonments
at Latelle Kargnazoli, near SaraAll, south
of Shiginhan. The railway from Chardhui
to Bokhara is nearly completed.
RICHARD SEAMAN SCOTT, who absconded
with S160, 600 that belonged to the Manhat-
tan Bank, of which he had been an en-
ploye in 1885, has made a confession before
Consul General Waller at London. The
confession implicated a lawyer named John
r. Dunn, who got the money, and he was
arrested at New Y ork on the 10Th.
Two dynamite cartridges were exploded
on the West Glare railway bridge at Ennis,
Ireland, on the 10Th. No serious damage
was done Two other cartridges were found
on the bridge which had failed to explode.
The town hall at Crusheen, County Glare,
was fired the same day, but no damage was
done.
HURRICANE in the vicinity of Bordeaux,
France, recently destroyed an enormous
amount of property. The storm caused the
collision at Arcachon of two excursion
trains and several cars were wrecked and
seventeen persons were injured.
TIE Prussian Bundesrath has authorized
the raising of a loan of 10000 marks to
allow the Government to work the alcohOl
monopoly.
THE German Government has permitted
the reOpening of the Franciscan convent at
Neustadt, SiIesia.
the valley of the Red river, in Manitoba, to
shut out the proposed Red River Valley
road. A conflict between the forces of the
two lines is feared.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar has been re-
ceived at the French Foreign Office which
says that Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer,
has been massacred by natives after hav-
ing been deserted by his escort. The dis
patch was dIscredited in London.
n the TtiT0nriclr fTra1audl sessions ou
the 18th three persons were sentenced un'
der the Crimes act, two of them to six
months Imprisonment and one to four
months, for resisting the sheriff.
The Journal de ST. Petersburg says the Rus
sian Embassy at COnstantinOple has handed
to the Porte a protest against Ferdinand's
occupancy of the Bulgarian throne. 1t de
| clares that he has been guilty of an auda
cious attempt against the rights of the
powers.
THE French Consuls in Bulgaria have
been instructed to discontinue business re
lations with the Government.
THE BoerSen Zett1Sag, of Berlin, contradicts
the recent report that the .Krupp firm
would be converted into a joint. stock com
pany.
IN Catania, Italy, on the 18th five new
| cases of cholera and twenty-six deaths were
reported, and in Palermo fourteen new
| cases and ten deaths.
| CHARLES PAGE, who swindled the Jacques
| Cartier Bank, of Montreal, out of S25, 000
has been arrested at Versailles, Quebec,
about eighteen miles from the border line.
| All the money was found in his posses
sion.
w. E. ELLIOTT & Co, dealers in lubricat
| Ing oils, Montreal, Can, have assigned,
with $50, 600 liabilities.
THE British Cabinet has decided to hold
| an autumn session of Parliament.
| IN the village of fMrebeausur-Bez in the
| Department Of Cote dor, France, riot
| occurred the other day over the introduc
! tiOn of Italian workmen, the villagers re
senting this and attacking the men, killing
one and wounding five others.
! FEARS were expressed IN Ounalaska con-
cerning the safety of the revenue cutter
| Bear. The Bear was one Of the Greedy re-
| lief ships.
A RIOT occurred the other day at Ken
| mare, Ireland, and the mob attacked and
stoned the barracks where the police were
! quartered. The police charged with drawn
swords upon the rioters, injuring many of
! them and arresting a number.
/ TAIMUR SHAH and two officers at Herat
| have been executed by the Atneer of AT
| ghanistan for treason.
THE Inman steamship City of Montreal,
| from New York for Liverpool, was de
/ stroved by fire at sea recently. A boat
crew was reported missing. The rest, mum
bering about 400, were rescued shortly after
| taking to the boats by the steamship Y orI
| City, arriving safely at Queenstown. The
| fire originated in the cotton stored in the
! hold.
| BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
| seven days ended August IL numbered fol
| the United States, 135; Canada, 26
THE Bank of London, Ont, has suspended
/ The capital was S1,0OO,000. Assets were
| reported ample.
THE total eclipse of the sun was observed
| at Berlin on the 10Th.
THE British Government has proclaimed
| the IRISH National League under the Crime;
/ act.
THE race between the Galatea and the
| Dauntless near Halifax, N. s., on the 19tI
| ended in the Galatea being the winner OF
! account of her allowance, although the
/ Dauntless led her at the close about 10(
/ yards.